Re: [edlug] Global Search and Replace

[Justin B Rye <edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Dick Middleton wrote:
> On the same lines you could do:
> 
> find . -name '*.html' -exec sed 's.....' \;
> 
> I've not tried it though

The problem is that sed doesn't edit the file in place - it just
outputs the filtered version to stdout.  So what I was thinking of
as the "obvious" solution was:

export A='</body>'
export B='whatever
it
was
</body>'
TEMP=/some/secure/path/temp.html
for	EACH
in	$(find . -name *.html)
do	sed "s/$A/$B/" $EACH > $TEMP
	cat $TEMP > $EACH
done
rm $TEMP

But once it gets that long it's worth thinking about the perl
one-liner solution... though as it happens I also have ssed
installed, which can do it in-place.
-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)

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